Large Families

Homeschooling in a large family is both a joy and a challenge. Learn how to manage those challenges, while meeting the needs of everyone in the family. Here you’ll find information on keeping your home running smoothly, tending to toddlers while homeschooling, teaching many different grade levels at once, and avoid burnout.

Homeschooling with Larger Families: How to Make It Work

Some ideas to encourage those who are homeschooling many children. Discusses how to develop daily plans, integrate your teaching to different age levels, maintain your presence to give your children a sense of stability, and keep your perspective.

Tips for Homeschooling Multiple Ages in a Large Family

Heather Bowen shares some tips, tricks, and shortcuts for homeschooling multiple ages within a large family.

Avoiding Chaos in a Large Family Homeschool

Every child is unique and homeschooling a large group of children with varying interests and aptitudes can be just as chaotic as it is rewarding. This article shares some tips and tricks for avoiding the chaos.

Raising Olives

This blog shares tips, ideas and some of the ups and downs of managing a home with lots of kids and raising children for the glory of God.

The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling Many

Homeschooling is no joke. It’s commitment and dedication, it’s trial and error. Homeschooling many is a whole different creature. There are different learning styles, interests, strengths and weaknesses. We are going to talk about what is most important when homeschooling many children, and some tips for special situations.

How I Teach a Large Family in a Relaxed, Classical Way: Math

A look at a tag team approach to teaching math in a large homeschool family.

How I Teach a Large Family in a Relaxed, Classical Way: Fine Arts

Ideas for incorporating fine art education into a large homeschool family curriculum.

Implementing Discipleship Homeschool with a Large Family

How do you switch to a discipleship homeschool way of life? Theresa, mother of ten asked such a question – here is her letter and a reply. Theresa has given permission for this to be shared in the hope that other families will be encouraged too.

Our Busy Homeschool: Large Family Learning at Home

Tristan is mom to eight children whom they homeschool.

Homeschooling a Houseful

A homeschooling mom of seven children shares her approach to successfully home educating in a large family. She emphasizes routine over schedules, taking advantage of teachable moments, and resisting the temptation to over-control.

How I Home-School my 3 Children in 3 Different Grades

These tips and tricks will help you get individual time with each of your kids while everyone is engaged in learning.

Benefits of Homeschooling a Large Family

A positive look at why sometimes homeschooling more is easier. A homeschooling mom discusses how homeschooling works for her large family.

Ten Tips from Homeschooling Moms of Four or More

Parents of several children engage in some seriously creative thinking to accomplish ordinary day to day tasks. This article is a collection of tips, gathered from ‘Moms of Many’, and is intended to supply helpful suggestions for homeschooling, maintaining your home, and generally keeping it all in balance.

I Am Not Getting It All Done: Homeschooling multiple children and multiple subjects

We have to cover subjects that go from reading and writing to foreign language, math, science, history and then to music, art and computer. For those of us with several children, it can be even more challenging, trying to meet all the instructional needs of each grade level every day.